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NHS Complaints ....on the rise and in need of review
This week there has been lots of talk about the way complaints about healthcare are handled in the UK. There have been calls to expand the role of the Health Service Ombudsman to allow more claims to be examined as part of an appeals process when patients are unhappy. A...
Laser eye surgery - A lesson in patient education
I have just read a really interesting article in this week's BMJ about laser eye surgery which makes some really good points about complications of such surgery. In summary, the article highlighted that whilst serious complications are rare less serious complications are common....
Care and compassion – the last priority in the NHS?
'The NHS is failing older patients' said a new report by the Health Service Ombudsman published yesterday. I could have told you that already! Having worked in the NHS for only a short time I witnessed the sort of stories reported in 'Care and Compassion?' the findings of ten independent...
Out-of-our hours GP care
"This week's press coverage of Brian Dowsett, a JMW client currently pursuing a clinical negligence claim , serves as a reminder of the ongoing issue of out-of hours GP care in the UK. Cases such as Mr Dowsett's are becoming all too familiar in the press and indicate a change is necessary...
Client Brian Dowsett on BBC News Programme
JMW is currently investigating a clinical negligence claim on behalf of Brian Dowsett who featured in a recent BBC1 programme, Inside Out . Brian's story has also featured in the local and national press. Mr Dowsett, 74, was seen by an out-of-hours doctor, Dr Hans Raj Yadav in 2007 when...
Deadline for potential surgery clinical negligence claimants in Liverpool
Women who may have suffered medical negligence through the actions of an uro-gynaecologist surgeon working in Liverpool between 1993 and 2008 are being urged to come forward before September to make a possible compensation claim. One personal injury specialist solicitor already has details of...
Double misdiagnosis leads to clinical negligence payout
A hospital's double misdiagnosis and subsequent wrong treatment for MRSA and leukaemia, neither of which a patient had, has led to the victim being awarded £175,000 in clinical negligence compensation. The 46-year-old man first went to Basildon Hospital in Essex with an infected wound,...
